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It appears any HTML comments in a Visualforce page are stripped out before the content reaches the users browser.

Is there a way to render comments?

There are some cases where the comments are useful, such as in debugging and CSS conditional comments.

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Visualforce definitely strips out the HTML comments and does not render them in the browser as HTML comments. I have observed it, but I don't ever remember reading it in any documentation. Here's the idea to stop that: http://success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000iEyFAAU along with a workaround if you really need it rendered.

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I see in the idea there is mention that "support for conditional comments is going to be provided" in Winter 13. I couldn't find any reference to this after a quick search. – Daniel Ballinger Aug 28 '12 at 23:35
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@DanielBallinger - na14.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/… (page 180): "Prior to Winter ’13, HTML and XML comments were allowed in Visualforce pages but were automatically removed during page rendering. This included Internet Explorer-specific “conditional comments” that are often used to address browser compatibility issues. In Winter ’13, these comments are recognized by Visualforce and passed through to the browser." [It is just the conditional comments that will be recognized.] – Peter Knolle Aug 28 '12 at 23:46
Looks like I'll need to update the Visualforce pages to the 26.0 API version to get this. Thanks. – Daniel Ballinger Aug 28 '12 at 23:53
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Daniel are you referring to comments inside of VF tags?

I have used standard <!-- comment --> in VF pages repeatedly with no problems.

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I've put a basic plain text comment immediately under the opening <apex:Page> tag. The Visualforce page saves fine, but I can't see the comment in the resulting HTML. There are other comments, such as <!-- Main Body Starts Here --> – Daniel Ballinger Aug 28 '12 at 21:52

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